Laura Avila shares and the group is invited to comment:
The words I have on the walls in my Spanish classroom are all high up and are pronouns, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions. No verbs, no nouns.
I have these mainly because they are used a lot and I don’t feel like having to write them down every time in every class every day. When I need one I point at it and we move on. The kids find them and use them.
My focus has always, since the very beginning, been on verbs. I have always believed in NOT having verbs written out on the walls bc those are the ones I want students to acquire without that crutch.
As for nouns, there’s never been a need to repeat them much bc they are what people hear easily in normal speech and kids remember them without a problem.
So my question is: are my kids really missing out from not having these word walls you all use?
I am not yet convinced that having all these verbs is good for acquisition, but I don’t want to be shortchanging students.